“Enact the CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act to raise the corporate income tax rate on publicly traded corporations that pay their CEO or highest-paid employee more than 100 times the median compensation of their U.S. workers.”
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Independently re-verified via GovTrack (which mirrors official congressional data) after congress.gov returned anti-bot 403s to the fetcher — the cited congress.gov bill URLs are REAL, live bill pages, not invented or broken. DeSaulnier is the LEAD SPONSOR/AUTHOR (not a mere co-sponsor) of the exact bill the promise names: H.R. 1284 in the 118th Congress (title 'CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act,' sponsor Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA10], introduced 2023-03-01), which he reintroduced in the 119th Congress as H.R. 5019 (same title, sponsor, introduced 2025-08-22). This is a signature pay-ratio corporate-tax bill he has driven across multiple Congresses. Neither version was enacted: both remain in 'Introduced' status, referred to committee with no markup, floor vote, or further action ('This bill was introduced ... but it did not receive a vote'). Actively leading and repeatedly reintroducing an authored bill that dies in committee is exactly CHAMPIONED (+0.75) — beyond a single supporting vote, but short of FULL because it never became law and none of its substance was enacted. Outcome is fair under a party-neutral standard: an author/lead sponsor of any party with this same record (bill authored, reintroduced, never enacted) would earn CHAMPIONED. Rating CONFIRMED.
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